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dotfiles and system configuration are pretty different use-cases, usually when you do system-wide stuff you want to manage not just the configuration files but also what software is installed and a bunch of other things. Ansible or something else like it is definitely the right tool for the job. And Ansible isn’t so difficult to learn, you only need to know like 5% of what it can do to be very effective.

For dotfiles my personal preference is dotbot, but there are MANY many different tools that are all good and are just different ways to accomplish roughly the same thing.

Same here. Only time it stopped working is when my last subtitle provider stopped working, so then I put in a few new ones.

Yeah I wouldn’t call Arch a server OS. I run Arch on my laptop, but Debian on my docker/file/self-hosting server. Best tool for the job etc. Never even been tempted by Unraid, the whole point of running Linux is that I control what goes where.

This particular example isn’t very good, just install multiple kernels (or compile one yourself) on your distro of choice and boot into the one you want with your bootloader of choice. Once set up you don’t even have to change any configs any more, just use an interactive menu on boot. So even easier than NixOS? There are plenty of valid use-cases for Nix, this isn’t one of them.

If you only route your encrypted Usenet traffic through it then sure, the privacy argument is moot, you’re just spending money for worse performance without any benefit.

But way too many people route all their traffic through a VPN under the assumption that it improves privacy somehow, which often isn’t the case.

Worse performance, not everything works, and depending on the country you live in and which VPN provider you pick a VPN can actually be a downgrade in privacy since a second commercial entity now has the ability to look at all your traffic and distil valuable data from it to sell. The better VPN providers say they don’t do this (and some probably don’t) but a lot of them will definitely do so.

Also: VPN is only really needed for torrenting, and that’s not the only way to pirate stuff. Usenet is perfectly fine to use without a VPN, since it’s encrypted (TLS/SSL if you configure it right) and other parties can’t just join your P2P network to see what you’re doing.

Check out carapace. It takes a bit of setup but basically tries to make all the completions work in almost any shell. For me that solved the big step backwards from fish’s completions that nu’s native completions have.

Yeah, it has. I think they started out as loving the concepts of PowerShell but hating the implementation, combined with the fact that PowerShell is clearly a Windows-first shell and doesn’t work so well on other OSes (it surprised me a lot to find out that PowerShell even has support for linux).

nu tries to implement these concepts in a way that’s more universal and can work equally well on Linux, macOS or Windows.

It’s arguably better as a scripting language than as an interactive shell. There are a lot of shell scripts out there that also dabble in light data processing, and it’s not the easiest thing to achieve well or without corner cases. So nu scripts are great if all you need is shell scripts with some data processing.

nu as an interactive shell is great for the use cases it shines at (like OP’s example), but a bit too non-POSIXy for a lot of people, especially since it’s not (yet) as well polished as something like fish is for example.

nu 's commands also work on JSON, so you don’t really need jq (or xq or yq) any more. It offers a unified set of commands that’ll work on almost any kind of structured data.

On older consoles, yes, absolutely. But people really shouldn’t let their saltiness from 5 years ago stop them from enjoying what has since become one of the better games of the past decade.

On the Playstation store, yes. On PC it was mostly fine, if a bit buggy because it was released too early (as so many games are unfortunately). But I and many other people enjoyed it just fine at launch, and it has gotten better and better every year since then. It’s still getting new content and patches 5 years after launch, and the modding scene is absolutely crazy right now, so many good stuff being released.

It had all of those things at launch.

This is so wrong I don’t even know where to start. There is an very convoluted web of how choices in literally dozens of quests affect other quests and other things in the world. There are hours and hours and hours of videos on Youtube going through all the choices you have and all the possible outcomes they give you and all the different endings the game has if you make the right choices.

And since when are we gatekeeping the term RPG? Even the Wikipedia article opens with “Cyberpunk 2077 is a 2020 action role-playing game”… It’s also based on a pen-and-paper RPG, and it’s original creator, Mike Pondsmith, is involved in the creation of this game and it’s upcoming sequel. I’m not sure how much more RPG you can be than that?

Some weird choices in this one, like completely ignoring Cyberpunk 2077 exists.